EMPLOYER ESTOPPED FROM DEFENDING WRONGFUL DISMISSAL

In Desmarais v. Eat Your Cake Personal Health Delivery Inc., 2022 BCSC 1566, the plaintiff was a former employee, who had been dismissed for cause, brought a successful employment standards complaint with respect to the dismissal.  He also brought a wrongful dismissal...

CHEF NOT CONSTRUCTIVELY DISMISSED – ACTED PRECIPITOUSLY

In Farkas v. Island Lake Resort Group (2003) Inc., 2022 BCSC 1282, the plaintiff was the former executive chef for the defendant, Island Lake Resort Group., which owned a remote mountainside backcountry ski lodge with a fine-dining restaurant near Fernie, B.C. The...

CRIMINAL CODE SCREENING OF SEX ASSAULT VICTIMS UPHELD

R v. J.J., 2022 SCC28 In 2018 Parliament enacted sections 278.92 to 278.94 of the Criminal Code to address the barriers that had prevented victims of sexual offences from making complaints to police. These provisions created a screening regime to protect the...

CHARTER AND VACCINE MANDATES

Canadian Society for the Advancement of Science in Public Policy V. British Columbia, 2022 BCSC 160 The Canadian Society for the Advancement of Science in Public Policy, “ CSASPP” and its executive director, Kipling Warner, a software engineer, filed a constitutional...

BC COURT OF APPEAL: NO TORT OF “BLACKLISTING”

FORCOMP Forestry Consulting Ltd. et al. v. British Columbia, et al, 2021 BCCA 465   FORCOMP contracted with the Ministry, between 1993 and 2002, to provide forestry data analysis. FORCOMP alleged the contract work stopped after 2002 because, in retaliation,  the...